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Letters Patent No. 91,403, dated June 15, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICE FOR 'CARRYING- L'UMBER FROM llHIEl SAW INCIROULAR- Y SAW MILLS.

-HOFF.

The Schedule referred 'to 1n these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

, To lll whom. it may concern veying lumber out of the'way, as it is cut from the log in saw-mills; and

It consists in attaching a truck. or car to the forward .end of the log-carriage, vand that runs upon the same track with it, or upon a supplementary track, laid `within or alongside -of the traek of the log-carriage, i and which is brought to `the carriage, at each backward movement, into proper posi-tion for the ylumber to be conveniently removed thereto from the reeeiv ing-rollers, and by--which it may be thence 'readily conveyed to thev yard without further handling, thus greatly lessening the label', and saving muolrof the expense usually required for this purpose.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an ordinary circularsaw mill, showingr the log-carriage and the olf-bearing truok attaehed thereto. l

Eig-nre 2 is a top view of the same.

Similar letters Aof reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

A is the log-carriage., and

B B', the carriage-track.

G, the saw.

G, log.

E E, rollers that receive the boards, 85o., as they are ,out from the log.

D is the Aolf-bearing truck, which may be made in any known manner.

The truck is here ,shown as made narrower than the log-carriage, and asupplementary rail, F, is laid for the trucks on the saw-sideto run upon, while the trucks on the other side run upon the outside rail B.

The object of this arrangement is to provide space between the'oiilbearing truck and the receiving-rollers E, for the workman who removes the lumber therefrom to the-car or truck D, and also to avoid the expense of a wide track, extending into the yard.

The truck D may., however, be.made the same width as the log-carriage, if desired, and run upon the same track with it.

The car Dis attached to the forward end of the logoarriage by a hook, H, pivoted in jaws J, and engaging with an eye, I, in the log-carriage, and is brought by the carriage, when the latter is gigged back, opposite the receiving-rollers E, into convenient position to reeeive the lumber from the rollers E.

The car is pushed forward along thetraok B F, out of the way, as the carriage is fed forward, and returned opposite the rollers as it is backed, this operation being repeated each time a board is out from the log.

Y When the car D is loaded, it is unhoeked from the log-carriage, and run ont into the yard. Y

-lfaving thus fully described my invention,

Vhat I claim. as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'Attac-hi'ng ythe off-bearing truck or ear D to the for.- ward end of the log-carriage, and operating the saine in the manner substantially as herein described.

' JOHN H. ADAMS.

Witnesses: O. F. MAYHEW,

J. MORRISON. 

